Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-28

cured thirtv-four registered letters, the
aggregate of which is not known though
/ five If the packages were known to con
/ tain 800 each. TIL route sgeDt secreted
a number of letters which the robbers did
not get. The express messenger, 4. ".
| Losky, might, il is thought, nave
/ HELD THE FORT
indefinitely. The hriggnds only made use
! Of a bulldozing threat when they spoke
/ OF burning ire cara thr at they COUNT
| have carried out very eXpedihouslv, any
way. He could easily have kept out of
| t range of their bullets also, but the
] fusllade was too much for the average
mans nerves, and the average man
weskeEs when it comes to train robbers.
Even United States troops have been
known to surrender their guns without q
fight. Standing as it did high above the
grOurd, the messenger had the humiiat-
ing labor of helping the plunderers into
his car with his own hands. He had taken
out the packages and put them
into carpet-saCk which he turned over
to the thieves. me valuable iewelry
was left in the SAFE which they missed
getting.
NO FIGHT POSSIBLE.
The fellows picked their place well.
No better scene for a robbery could be
ind anywhere. II there had been
twenty armed men on the coaches, it is
doubtful il they could have afforded re
lief in the short tim. IN which it took to
90 the work. To walk along q high
trestle IS no simple task in daylight. To
walk il when all but narrow margin is
occupied with cars, in iDky darkness,
YOU be n desperate undertaking. The
coaches, it will be remembered, were
haltet on the bridge and the
sleeper On high embankment.
10 get from the sleeper to
the engines would have required going
down that embsnkment, then descending
the bank of the creek, wsding it, and
climbing the steep bluffs beyond. That
vas equally as sperate task.
Ga board the train was the sheriff Of
Dallas county, Mr.. Henry Lewis. Lean
ing out Of the window of the coach near
est the robbers he emptied one chambar
~ his siXshoOter st them. The reply
cane back that # any more OF that was
done the engineer ard fireman would be
killed. There was no more shooting
When The train halted Conductor Tom
Brennon started forward, suspecting
something wrong. Tne volleys OF pistol
sh is confirmed him in this belief, and
he hastily retraced his stems, ordering the
lights pu5 cut and telling the startled
passengers
To ST CRETE THEIR VALUABLFS.
This many Of tlem lost no time in
doing but it was not needed. The rob-
hers were after bigger game, and when
they got the express and mail matter de-
camped N the darkness. II took some
time to get the huge boulders from the
track and the train was two hours late
when it pulled into Fort Worth.
WILL HUNT WITH BLoODHOUNDS.
A little past O'Clock q special train
came through town on which were Capt. |
Morton and Deputy United States Mar
shalS C,bell and Goodman with several
men, bound for the scene of the robbery. |
rney had three or four bloodhounds with |
them and will give the robbers red hot !
chase.
FROM THE SCENE.
Special to the Gazette.
GORDON, Ten, Jan. 23.-About ,
O'Clock this morning as the egstbOund |
passenger was pulling ont from the de-
pot at this place, the engine was boarded !
by two armed men, who at once took |
control Of the engineer and tireman.
They allowed the train to proceed until |
ii arrived ut the bridge on
Barton's creek, when they held it up
while the aches We're yet on the bridge.
They were joined By six others and the
;ruwd proceeded to rob the msIl and ex-
pr So cars. They went through the mail
and took all the registered mater lis
rot known what amount they got in the
nail, but they opened the express com
oany's safe with the pick from the engine
md took what money YVES in it.
1t is believed that this party has been
in the mountains near here for
light or ten days, but there is no clew as
'et to their Identity. Men have been
couring the country in ell directions all
lay.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
pecial TO the Gazette
WEATHERFURD, TEX, Jan. % 1t was
armed here this morning when the east.
nund tam arrived at O'Clock. thst one
t the most daring train robberteS that
'as ever accomplished wes committed
80 miles end half this side of Gordon,
" y-twO miles west of this place.
usL as the train lef Cor
on two MASKED men boarded The
nsine aud covered the engineer and fire
ian with their pistols, using them as
hey wanted to, and when they got the /
rain two and a half miles this side OF
iordon, the robbers had the coaches and 7
!eeper stopped on the bridge ard high /
resue across Barton's creek, where they t
'und four more men waiting and in read I
less, two masked and two not. I
hese four men had the track t
hstructed, so that the train could not t
ass in the event the two men failed 10 g
ct on the engine ct Gordon. a
When tie train stopped the four men c
waiting and the two on the train pro- p
e-d ed to rob the express aud mail car, c
ut as soon as the express messen- q
er, Mr.. a. W. Losky, found ii
lie robbers had the train fl
charge, he locked the door of the ex-
ress car end refused to admit the rob p
srs. They at once began firing into the a.
II and continued until they had fired CT
teen shots into it. The ci
essenger still refused to admit them, u
hen they threatened to burn the car and Fl
II him if he attempted to escape. He tc
IS still firm. The robbers then forced 81
E engineer and fireman to take The coal OF
* and break the door off the express e,
r when they went in, and robbed it and ii
e mail car. th
Mr.. Vaugisson, the agent for the Pacific D:
press Company at this place, states ii
st the robbers made comparatively
lter-haul, getting but very little fr' m pl
2 express car, as the messenger stated &C
him that he had nothing heavy on his pr
:. His run was light. NJ. VanGisson III
d the car was pretty badly shot up. hi
4 special train with United States dep pr
2 marshsls with bloodhounds passed vi
S city to-day at O'Clock for the west. nc
THE TALK OF THE TOWN. tn
,cial to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX Jan. 23.-The express err
,berY at Gordon is the talk of the town. DO
out y O'Clock 8 special train was sent wi